claver2010 {l Wrote}:Ellsbury: 158 G, 732 PA
Trout: 138 G, 635 PA
So you can add more than 15% to all of Trout's "counting" stats to compare
First, that 15% doesn't change the cumulative stats that much, its 4.5 more HR and 12.5 more RBI, and closes the gap in TB, so they become more equal in those categories, not less. It increases the spread in R by 20, SB by 7, but it doesn't bring him anywhere close in 2B. With respect to average and OPS, it means nothing. So even adding the 15% they look frightfully similar, other than Trout's big lead in R and SB, Ellsbury's big lead in 2B and the fact that Trout would have struck out 60 more times than Ellsbury.
Second, it is naive to project season averages over games 138 through 158 of the MLB grind. Perhaps Trout keeps it up in his first full season of playing that many games, perhaps not. But he shouldn't get credit for it in comparing seasons.